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FReeper Research: GORELICK WORKED WITH RICHARD CLARKE! (HHS website transcript)
US Dept of Health & Human Services website ^ | 1/22/1999 | adam_az

Posted on 04/16/2004 7:17:42 AM PDT by adam_az

Thank you, and here's Jamie Gorelick. (Applause.)

MS. GORELICK: Mr. President, distinguished guests. Ten years ago I would not have put cyber terrorism at the top of the threats to our national security. But the landscape has changed. Given how well-armed we are, as Josh said, as a nation, but how reliant we are on computers in our everyday business and private lives, our nation's cyber systems become a tremendous target.

Today a small group of technically sophisticated people with nothing more than off-the-shelf computer equipment can get into, can disrupt the computers and the Internet connections on which our finance, telecommunications, power, water systems, emergency service systems all depend.

Is this speculation? No, it is not. In exercise eligible receiver, our Defense Department conducted a war game using this technique and came to just that conclusion. And terrorists, organized crime, drug cartels, as well as nation states are either creating cybertech capabilities or are talking about using them. I believe that cyberspace is the next battlefield for this nation.

Now, cyber terrorism may be a new issue to many Americans, but it's not new to me and it's not new to this administration. In 1995, our Attorney General asked me to chair a critical infrastructure working group that brought together Justice and Defense and the intelligence community to begin to address what we saw as a new and emerging threat. The President then appointed a commission on critical infrastructure protection whose advisory board I co-chaired.

In response to his commission's work, last year the President signed two directives -- to strengthen U.S. readiness to meet unconventional threats to our nation, and to protect our critical infrastructures. He appointed a national coordinator, Dick Clarke, to review and handle and coordinate security infrastructure protection and counterterrorism, and a national plan is under development to ensure that America can defend itself in cyberspace.

Now, as part of that national plan I hope that we can see action in a number of areas, three of which I see as particularly pressing. The first, both the public and private sectors need to be aware of the problem and the security measures that can be taken to address it. I'd like to see the private sector work with the federal government to make sure that we have enough people who are trained in computer security, which we do not now have.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911commission; clarke; gorelick; hhs; richardclarke
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To: Gabz
The longer Gore-Lick remains, the more it mimics Jack Ruby serving on the Warren Commission.
41 posted on 04/16/2004 8:46:20 AM PDT by chambley1 (n)
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To: adam_az
Do you suppose she will be held accountable?Naaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
42 posted on 04/16/2004 8:52:27 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: OldFriend
IMHO, these families have become very much like a crime family, destroying all who would stand in their way of attacking the President.

Being originally from NYC - I know exactly what you mean - and don't disagree.

This "commission" is nothing but a farce.

43 posted on 04/16/2004 8:53:14 AM PDT by Gabz (Stress out Streisand.............................DONATE MONTHLY)
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To: mewzilla
She probably revised The Rules of Engagement to the point that our guys couldn't carry live ammo!That just isn't Politically Correct!!
44 posted on 04/16/2004 8:54:16 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: Diogenesis
Please add this thread to your running Gorelick post.

Keep up your great work! I'd be honored to buy you a beer some day.
45 posted on 04/16/2004 8:57:49 AM PDT by adam_az (Call your state Republican party office and VOLUNTEER FOR A CAMPAIGN!!!)
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To: Carolinamom
From 1994 to 1997 -- as Deputy Attorney General of the United States, the second highest position in the Department of Justice. In that role, ; she was also the chief operating officer with responsibility for over 100,000 people and a budget of more than $18 billion. Ms. Gorelick came to this position from the Department of Defense, where she was General Counsel, running the country's largest law firm. She is a member of the Central Intelligence Agency's National Security Advisory Panel and has served on numerous government commissions.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Gorelick was Vice Chair of the Task Force on the Audit, Inspection and Investigative Components of the Department of Defense, which led to the institution of an Inspector General there, and she was Assistant to the Secretary and Counselor to the Deputy Secretary of Energy.

46 posted on 04/16/2004 8:58:04 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: adam_az
NEWS CONFERENCE SECRETARY OF DEFENSELES ASPIN, JAMIE GORELICK, GENERAL COUNSEL,DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE REGARDING THE REGULATIONSON HOMOSEXUAL CONDUCT IN THE MILITARY(December 22, 1993)
47 posted on 04/16/2004 9:02:35 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: bandleader
DEMOCRACY DEMORATS AT WORK....

Once again, the Demorats PROVE they are a criminal conspiracy -- interested ONLY in power and the destruction of American values...

Semper Fi

48 posted on 04/16/2004 9:07:01 AM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek...But I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: chambley1
I concur.
49 posted on 04/16/2004 9:07:45 AM PDT by Gabz (Stress out Streisand.............................DONATE MONTHLY)
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To: bandleader
In May 1995, the Washington Post reported, "Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick yesterday said the Clinton administration planned to drop its proposal to give the president absolute power to designate groups as terrorist organizations."

At issue was the Clinton administration's proposed counterterrorism legislation that would prohibit Americans from raising funds to support groups classified by the president as terrorist organizations. The original bill would not have allowed court challenges to the president's designations.

In her testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime Gorelick said, "We will recommend deletion of the assertions in that bill that the president's designations are unreviewable or conclusive."

Gorelick told reporters at the time that criticism from civil liberties groups convinced administration officials that the ban on court challenges was not necessary.


the deputy attorney general was assigned to Clinton's Citizenship USA program. Former Justice Department investigator David Schippers wrote in his 1999 book, "Sell Out" that it was Gorelick's task to expedite new rules under which criminal background checks were suspended for new immigrants.



The American Spectator quotes a Republican staffer saying, "[Gorelick] knows better than anyone about what was going on at Justice in the later days of the Clinton Administration. She had close ties there."

The staffer added, "In closed-door meetings, she has defended the Clinton people. How can they claim that Ashcroft and his people could do much of anything six weeks into moving into the building?"

"Gorelick should be testifying during these hearings; she should not be up there creating the appearance she played no role in what happened on 9/11, because she definitely did," says the staffer. "The Clinton folks had eight years to do something about Bin Laden. They did nothing. The Bush people had eight months. You'd think judging by the hearings that it was the other way around."


50 posted on 04/16/2004 9:09:02 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: mewzilla
the Justice Department, with Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick in the thick of important policy decisions, did not see it that way. Committed to the bitter end to the law-enforcement mindset, and overwrought at the mere possibility of violating the ill-conceived "primary purpose" test, DOJ made matters significantly worse. It imposed severe procedural barriers against competent intelligence gathering. As described by the FISA Court of Review in 2002:

[T]he 1995 Procedures limited contacts between the FBI and [DOJ's] Criminal Division in cases where FISA surveillance or searches were being conducted by the FBI for foreign intelligence (FI) or foreign counterintelligence (FCI) purposes. . . . The procedures state that "the FBI and Criminal Division should ensure that advice intended to preserve the option of a criminal prosecution does not inadvertently result in either the fact or the appearance of the Criminal Division's directing or controlling the FI or FCI investigation toward law enforcement objectives." 1995 Procedures at 2, 6 (emphasis added). Although these procedures provided for significant information sharing and coordination between criminal and FI or FCI investigations, based at least in part on the "directing or controlling" language, they eventually came to be narrowly interpreted within the Department of Justice, and most particularly by [the Justice Department's Office of Intelligence Policy Review (OIPR)], as requiring OIPR to act as a "wall" to prevent the FBI intelligence officials from communicating with the Criminal Division regarding ongoing FI or FCI investigations. . . . Thus, the focus became the nature of the underlying investigation, rather than the general purpose of the surveillance. Once prosecution of the target was being considered, the procedures, as interpreted by OIPR in light of the case law, prevented the Criminal Division from providing any meaningful advice to the FBI. (Italics mine except where otherwise indicated.)

As Deputy Attorney General, Gorelick introduced new managerial structures to guide the Department in the midst of a 30 percent increase in the Department's personnel and a 70 percent budget increase during her tenure.

One of Ms. Gorelick's principal priorities was to help prepare the Justice Department to be able to respond effectively to the new challenges of transnational crime and terrorism. To do this, she forged new relationships and administrative protocols with the Departments of State, Treasury and Defense, and with the intelligence community.

The Deputy Attorney General also worked with the Department's law enforcement components to better respond to crisis situations in the aftermath of the incidents at Ruby Ridge and Waco. After the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995, she coordinated the government's overall response to the bombing and supervised the investigative and prosecutorial response to the crisis.

"In all of her work with law enforcement," Reno added, "Jamie displayed a sensitivity to the civil liberties of our citizens that gave comfort to all of us who care deeply about the Constitution."

Before joining the Department of Justice, Gorelick served from May 1993 to April 1994 as General Counsel of the Department of Defense. As General Counsel, she supervised the government's second-largest "law firm," consisting of 10,000 lawyers.

51 posted on 04/16/2004 9:16:52 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl
Kean was right in one thing in respect to Gorelick: she's experienced........but at WHAT exactly?
52 posted on 04/16/2004 9:21:14 AM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: kcvl
After the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995, she coordinated the government's overall response to the bombing and supervised the investigative and prosecutorial response to the crisis.

She certainly did.

53 posted on 04/16/2004 9:24:44 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: Carolinamom
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1995

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ISSUES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UPGRADING FEDERAL BUILDING SECURITY

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Justice Department today made public a study of the vulnerability of federal office buildings to acts of terrorism and other forms of violence, prepared at the direction of the President after the April 19 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.

The study proposes new minimum security standards for federal buildings, and recommends that each federal facility be upgraded to meet those standards to the extent feasible.

"We owe it to our federal workers, and to the citizens who visit federal offices every day, to take these sensible steps to protect their safety," said Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick.

The survey concluded that typical federal facilities lack some of the elements needed to meet the new minimum security standards, recommended in light of the changed environment of heightened risk. The study noted that when many of the buildings were constructed, the potential risk of terrorist and similar violence was not as great as it is today, and that tight security was often seen as inconsistent with making the facility easily accessible to serve the public. In the last two months alone, 200 federal buildings have received bomb threats.

54 posted on 04/16/2004 9:27:19 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: So Cal Rocket
Can you cite this? I've never heard that before.
55 posted on 04/16/2004 9:30:52 AM PDT by 7426K
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To: kcvl
I am currently reading Miniter's Losing Bin Laden. These revelations coming out now support what he wrote about the clinton practice of only paying lip service to taking measures to safeguard the public. Jamie Gorelick's resume should include Acolyte to Clinton.
56 posted on 04/16/2004 9:32:41 AM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: Carolinamom
I can't wait to read his book. I would also like to HEAR Mansoor Ijaz' testimony, which will be given BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
57 posted on 04/16/2004 9:36:41 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Gabz
The republicans like Kean are DESPICABLE ALSO!
58 posted on 04/16/2004 9:42:03 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: kcvl
Do you think those babbler-mouth commissioners going on all the TV shows will reveal what he says? I'm like you; I want to hear the testimony itself or at least read the transcript because I don't trust anything they say since they will filter it to suit their own biases.
59 posted on 04/16/2004 9:43:23 AM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: OldFriend
"IMHO, these families have become very much like a crime family, destroying all who would stand in their way of attacking the President."

Nonsense, somehow this an angle to extract more money.
60 posted on 04/16/2004 9:44:19 AM PDT by WHBates
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